Dear Sir/Madam:

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Haileselassie

Girmay Gezahegn. I am writing to you as a last resort after
I have made numerous efforts to contact people with
influence and wrote in vain to various newspaper editors and
mass media institutions regarding a miscarriage of justice
I, my family and the late brother of ours – Mesfin Girmay
Gezahegn suffered at the hands of a murderer.

My brother, Mesfin Gezahegn was murdered by then a 19 years

old woman, Amber Torrez, on 29/03/04. Shortly, after she
murdered my brother she was caught and arrested. In an
interview, she gave to the Denver police the same night she
was caught, she admitted to the killing in self-defence as
she claimed my brother tried to rape her.

Few days after her arrest, police investigators in Denver

proved forensically, beyond any doubt, using blood sample
found at the site of the Killing that matched of the
accused. To back up their case they also presented with
material evidence of video clippings where Amber Torrez, the
accused, fraudulently using credit cards that she had
stolen from Professor, John Hand, after she had killed him
on the night of the 28/03/04.

It was after she was implicated that she had killed another
person a night before she killed my brother that she changed
her story of events that she killed the two people because
she believed she had been assigned by divine order to carry
out such killings of what she regarded were as an
undesirable people to be privileged to live.

On the 13/03/04, she had also attempted to set fire and burn
alive a disable person but whose life was spared when other
people appeared on the scene. She and her friend tied the
disable person to his wheelchair with a duct tape, punched
him several times, and roped his money and run away.

Clearly, this was a woman out and about to deliberately kill

recklessly innocent people for unlawful financial gains.
This being the case, the district court judge of Denver
Colorado passed a sentence of not guilty by insanity on the
28/08/06 and set her free of any crime to our shock and
dismay.
The accused has no incontrovertible recorded mental medical
history. The judged deliver the verdict of insanity at the
time she killed the two people because she fabricated the
Story of divine mission that she was assigned to carry out
against what she called bad people.

Coupled with this, according to the judge, she was deemed

insane because the psychiatric doctors who testify in her
defence thought she was forthright in her claim to admitting
the crime she committed.

According to the psychiatric doctors who testify, she was

insane at the time of the killings because no sane person
would admit to such brutal killings unless the person is
suffering from mental illness and does not care the
consequences that follow for her actions.

However, the psychiatric doctors knowingly failed to see

that Amber Torrez had no other options but to admit to the
killings because she was caught red-handed with the weapon
of murder and the victim’s blood drenched clothe and
footwear and was also seen by an eye witness who testify to
the killings in court on 28/08/06.

One of the psychiatric doctors who testified in defence of

the accused as insane at the time of the killings on
28/08/06 also testify a year earlier (16/08/05) for the
prosecutor that the accused knew what she was doing when she
did committee the crimes of the killings and the fraudulent
use of credit card stolen from her victim to shop items.

Bizarre as it may sound, a year later on 28/08/06, the same

psychiatric doctor who testify for the prosecutor turned
round and testified for the defence claiming the accused was
indeed insane. How in God’s name the same doctor under oath
could say two contradictory things and appeared for the
prosecution and the defence without committing perjury and
escape the consequence in a nation such as the USA is beyond
me!

Why wouldn’t the prosecution team object the presence in the

witness box of such a psychiatric doctor as a defence
witness when the same doctor was used as a witness of the
prosecution a year earlier?

Why would a prosecution team agree to a trail without jury,

when the judge who finally sentenced the accused to go free
was the same judge who invited the accused to a private
person to person talk lasting 40 minutes to advice her on
what line of defence she needed to adopt to mitigate the
case against her crime? Is not the case that a judge needs
to be unbiased and independent and make no close contact
with an accused to give clean judgment?
Why would a member of the prosecution team go out of his way
to publicly be quoted on record by a newspaper admitting
that the prosecution had no strong case against the accused
in the light of the testimony given by what appears to be
paid three psychiatric doctors?

Why would a prosecution team that demanded the court that

the accused ought to undergo mental evaluations to prove her
sanity/insanity at the time of the killings, without
preparing the ground work that they in fact have doctors to
prove the case of sanity?

The cannot be naive we, the family members and friends had,
in fact questioned and reminded the prosecution team of the
danger of such a request fearing that a psychiatric doctor
for whatever reason may not come up with what was expected
to be – that she was sane and knew what she was doing?

Clearly, this was a give away ticket that revived the

accused lifeline considering the prosecution team did not
produce any psychiatric doctor in their defence to prove
that she was sane at the time of the killings. Why would a
prosecution team undermine its own case unless it was
operating knowing or otherwise for the defence?

Why couldn’t they bring long time friends of the accused who on TV interview claimed
that she was and has been a sense person who knew exactly what she was doing and
implicated her that she was involved in an organized crime at night while she put a
friendly and caring face by day time?

The family of the second victim, John Hand, appeared to be,

from the word go, in favour of the accused to go free. In
16/04/04 the brother-in-law of John Hand, Michael Bend, a
Supreme Court judge, in Denver Colorado, approached me and
gave me his office/Business card; just to plead with me that
we the victims should let the accused be housed in a mental
hospital provided she admitted to the crime she had
committed. He reassured me she would stay in the mental
hospital for long time to which I categorically objected.
His wife, Helen Hand, the sister of the victim is on record,
as published by newspapers, prepared to forgive the accused
and let her go free.

One keeps wonder the motive behind such a gesture of

gratitude by a family who lost a loved one and considering
there are two people involved in the murder crime. One also
keeps wondering how Justice Michael Bend conducts his
business of justice if he mixes up his private interest with
serious legal matters.
John Hand was a professor who owned and ran a Colorado Free
University that has a substantial asset and wealth. One
wonders, whether there is financial and insurance dealings
that could have made his family disregard the law and the
feeling of rest of the victims – us, the family of Mesfin,
the other humble victims of the accused.

They appeared as if not wanting the accused probed her

relations or the circumstances on how she met John Hand and
the level of illegal substance found in his blood that may
jeopardize insurance claims.

It is not surprising, when one, as I did find out, that the

legal system in the State of Colorado is inept and that
certain judges and prosecutors are corrupt. Equally, it is
not surprising, if the family of John Hand, the other
victim, choice to let his blood go in vain and defend the
accused for whatever reasons rather than seek justice for
the victim.

It is also on record, that the sister of John Hand, Helen

Hand, hugged and kissed the mother of the accused upon
hearing the not guilty verdict.

However, it is surprising, if not shocking when I fail to

find one upright individual in the entire establishment of
the State of Colorado, who would stand up and oppose
injustice at least by helping me and/or letting me air my
feelings of injustice to the wider American/Colorado public
through the newspaper establishment where the murder story
has been appearing with certain facts twisted and distorted.
A case in point: it has been reported the accused had a
history of mental illness when there was not evidence
brought to court of such a health record. I was not given
the chance to air the truth as obtain from the health
record.

This is a time where my faith and trust of society has hit

rock bottom, that after all America is not what it preaches
to be. Where is the freedom of expression when I could not
be given any chance and space to explain what has happen to
my family and how I feel?

Where is justice when a killer walks out free from court

laughing and smiling?

What does it mean and what kind of precedence is the court

setting in motion when killers walk free? Criminals will
have to only admit their crimes and express flimsy excesses
backed by paid psychiatric doctors to walk free in the
future! Is every one of us safe under this system?

I beg of you to publish this article so as the wider and

freedom and justice loving American people could read the
travesty of justice my family is enduring. Likewise, I would
inviteyou to carry out your own investigation about the
case and help justice regain it place in American legal
system.
Thank you
Sincerely
Haileselassie Girmay Gezahegn.
Tel - 01144 207 6877796
Mobile 0790884739
Haileselassie@blueyonder.co.uk

Please see: Rocky Mountain Newspaper

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DR
MN_15_4952441,00.html
Denver Newspaper:
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_4253513
And:
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_4253124
Please also see archive under Amber Torrez
www.9channelnews.com
Please see archive under Amber Torrez:
www.Rockymountainnews.com